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“But the biggest change will see the Mercury’s reporters filing breaking news stories to the website rather than waiting for the Sunday print edition.”
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“developing in-house technical capability is essential to any media organisation that is even fractionally ambitious… To make an up-front decision that your technical capability will never include hardware or software is pointlessly limiting.”
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“The world’s oldest Jewish newspaper, London-based The Jewish Chronicle, has re-launched its news site using free open source software Drupal.”
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“Several exciting new datasets are being make widely available for the first time, including Neighbourhood Statistics from the ONS, Health care information, from NHS Choices, a list of all schools in England and Wales from the DCSF…”
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“executives as WCBS, the CBS-owned and -operated station in New York City, unveiled a new online business venture in which they will supply “widgets with real-time news feeds” to a network of local blogs.”
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“Here is the UK part of copyright law that covers fair dealing as far as it directly impacts on journalists.”
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“I’m finding that there is a lot of confusion between the concept of social media and the concept of community. They are often used interchangeably and they are not the same thing.”
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“It took me around 30 minutes to create a Facebook app which would allow Facebook users to display a feed from my blog.”
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US: “The 2008 RI tracking study of newspaper and online readership in 100 U.S communities”
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US Readership Institute local newspaper website usage and experience research.
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“Adding to the growing list of news outlets that use mobile platforms including the Associated Press, the New York Times (NYT) launched an iPhone application that it developed with Atimi, available for purchase at the iPhone App Store.”
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“Buying goods and services is now the third-most-popular online activity in the UK behind accessing information and communicating with others, according to June 2008 data from UK trade group the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA). “
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“Testing on My Telegraph is almost complete. The final fixes are being made, mostly to styling, and in a few days time we’ll give the site a final check. While that is going on we’ve turned our attention to Telegraph Blogs”
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links for 2008-07-14
14 July 2008 · No Comments
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links for 2008-07-13
13 July 2008 · No Comments
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“For our money, you’re going to have a hard time finding a better device for two hundred bucks — or maybe even for any price. But that doesn’t mean you ought to toss your original iPhone, either.”
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“Guardian News and Media, the publisher of two British newspapers, purchased Mr. Ali’s homegrown media company, ContentNext, for a reported $30 million.”
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“Almost six years after our company started with paidContent.org, we have been acquired by Guardian News & Media (GNM), the news media division of UK-headquartered Guardian Media Group (GMG),”
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bbc.co.uk stats: “3.6bn page impressions a month, 33m unique weekly global users, 12m British adult users a week “
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“Getty will hand-pick photos from the Flickr group and sell images on to its commercial clients, with photographers taking commission for each image.”
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“Flickr hits 2 Billion photos served… How do they do it?”
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“The WordPress for iPhone App is nearly ready to go. It supports WordPress.com blogs as well as self-hosted WordPress.org blogs running version 2.5.1 or newer.”
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“Logically establishing that the tail is difficult to profit from because it is increasingly flat, Elberse suggests that it’s ‘imprudent for companies to upend traditional practice and focus on the demand for obscure products’.”
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“I believe it is crucial that managerial decisions are grounded not in romantic notions of the impact of technology, but are based on empirical evidence of what is actually taking place.”
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“Their strength is creating content and their best chance of building community involves giving people a chance to discuss, comment upon and contribute to their content”
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“If you actually do research — something that is depressingly rare in the world of Internet punditry — you’ll discover that in pretty much every American city there’s a deep need for social connections that isn’t being met for a lot of folks.”
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links for 2008-07-11
11 July 2008 · No Comments
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“Regional newspaper publisher Newsquest has begun the roll out of its new-look websites.”
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“the paper’s editor-in-chief Hans Erik Matre told attendees it was time to open up more of the editorial process to public view.”
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Responding to comments.
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“Since last year, it has been using our search history, if we allow, to improve our searches… So does SEO get replaced by people?”
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Audio: ” How can internet video be different from traditional TV?.. Suranga Chandratillake, Tom Happold, Anthony Lilley, Maggie O’Kane. Chaired by Jonathan Freedland”
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“So why not hand over those segments of the business to Google and concentrate on what a newspaper should do: journalism?… Newspapers should concentrate on what the are supposed to do and stop trying to differentiate themselves with technology.”
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“If you define it as the business of noticing events and describing them, then sure, give it all to Google. But for me, journalism is the practice of telling stories and, as such, technology is essential.”
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links for 2008-07-08
8 July 2008 · No Comments
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“hyperlocal will have to be hypersocial: it will have to be biased, take sides, stand for something, and be written by networks of partisans. It will have to be indigenous, written ‘by us, for us’ and not carrying over the myth of impartial, balanced jour
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“Top portals including AOL, MSN and Yahoo! are reportedly offering inventory, in some cases premium space, at cut-price rates as they struggle to hit targets. “
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Local online video forecasts from the Kelsey Group and Borrell.
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“Global spending on Internet advertising is forecast to reach $65.2 billion this year… IDC forecasts that in 2011, online ad spending will reach $106.6 billion, accounting for nearly 14% of the total advertising market.”
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links for 2008-07-07
7 July 2008 · No Comments
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“I’m particularly intrigued by recent developments like beatblogging, community reporting, content geo-tagging, and tapping into public social network conversations.”
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“Mark Potts, one of the founders of Backfence.com, a defunct network of citizen-journalism websites, objected to my reasoning, and suggested that the quality of content on Backfence sites had nothing to do with the company’s demise”
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“Local newspapers need to figure out how to find the data and information like train delays and dog-park news, then deliver it to the people who care about it”
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“What wasn’t getting through is the stuff I, as a product developer, care the most about — news about products. And the interesting new products I’d find wouldn’t make it onto the bus.”
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“Are forums the best way of interacting with online users?”
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“Over the next few days I want to look at some of the aspects that interest me about these pages.”
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“One feature that The Guardian offers which the BBC doesn’t is topic-based RSS feeds.”
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“Last week, Matt McDonnell wrote about the new BBC Topic Pages Beta. I’d now like explain how some of the many components that build those pages all work together.”
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“Twitter doesn’t have some major, and basic, features that FriedFeed does have. The most important are:Easy to read replies, Replies that can be any length, Search, The ability to post media–photos and videos–to your feed”
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“This plugin allows you to import all of the comments on one of your posts that readers have left on FriendFeed instead of directly on your blog. “
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“What I love about the MT and WordPress FriendFeed plug-ins is that they recognize the fact that conversations are occurring elsewhere, but they bring the discussion back to the source of the content where relevant.”
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links for 2008-07-03
3 July 2008 · No Comments
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“In short, this proposal is a threat to the diversity of the local media sector online and potentially to its print cousins. It is anti-competitive. It is simply not needed and will waste public money replicating existing commercial offerings”
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links for 2008-06-30
30 June 2008 · No Comments
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“What gives local newspaper editors pain? The thought of Ofcom letting the BBC spend £68m of licence fee money on setting up hyper-local internet video sites which conflict directly with the sites that Johnston and Trinity (among others) are creating”
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Media Ownership and the News
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“Irish Times, which went subscription for its online site Ireland.com in 2003, is launching its free site this Monday… The news site is being moved to a new website IrishTimes.com, instead of the current Ireland.com home.”
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“The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has decided to open up top-level domains to most any suffix we can imagine.. Who could win in this? Who always wins these days: Google, of course.”
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“Locative technologies are becoming more important to the future of journalism… From the report, here are our recommendations for journalists, news organizations and media companies:”
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“Anita Elberse, a Harvard Business School associate professor, has a really interesting article in the new Harvard Business Review that analyzes some Long Tail data and challenges some of the theory’s predictions.”
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“It was a compelling idea: In the digitized world, there’s more money to be made in niche offerings than in blockbusters. The data tell a different story.”
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“The new features [rooms and recommendations] have almost made FriendFeed a better Digg. One that doesn’t judge content by vote popularity, but on the basis of conversation and actual sharing of the content”
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“In-your-face celebrity stories have helped push Mail Online to the top spot for users, but do the figures tell the full story?”
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“By trying hard to stop the cycle, I cut the number of e-mails that I receive by 80 percent in a single week. It’s not that I stopped communicating; I just communicated in different and more productive ways.”
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“welcome to this fortnight’s spotlight post on the use of maps by the news media.”
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“Matt Brittin, UK country director for advertiser sales at Google, was voted by NMA readers as having made the greatest individual contribution to new media in the last year, receiving the honour at the NMA Effectiveness Awards 2008.”
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“In the presentation I attempted to answer these questions: Wireframes - What are they? Why do we use them? When should they be used? What are the different types? How are they used in a project life cycle? Why are they important?”
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“The technology to provide news consumers with individuated (personal) news is here now. Other industries consider delivering personalized content to be routine, but newspapers have little to show but a handful of experiments.”
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links for 2008-06-27
27 June 2008 · No Comments
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“Trinity Mirror has launched a series of branded YouTube channels for the video content of its regional newspapers.”
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“EveryBlock has taken a very data intensive look at local news reporting. As founder Adrain Holovaty explains:”
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“Those of you using wordpress may have seen, via the dashboard, that Top Gear (the show and magazine) are using wordpress for their web presence”
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“Google, driven almost entirely by the popularity of its video-sharing website YouTube, attracted a 48% share of UK online video traffic - 1.68bn views - in March, according to comScore Video Metrix.”
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“Many market forecasts have attempted to size the U.S. online video marke… These forecasts project the market will grow to between US$4 billion and US$7 billion by 2012.”
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“Paris-based ad holding company Publicis Groupe has formed an ad network relying on all four of the major ad serving systems run by Microsoft, Google/DoubleClick, Yahoo and AOL’s Platform-A”
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“Adrian Holovaty is the co-creator of Django, author of the Django book and is currently the BDFL of Django along with Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
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links for 2008-06-25
25 June 2008 · 1 Comment
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“The BBC has unveiled plans to spend £68m by 2013 on a network of 65 websites covering the whole country that will provide local on-demand video news.”
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“The details here reveal the plan would require a £23 million annual budget by 2012/13, starting in 2009/10 for a total £68 million investment over the period”
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“Information on the local video proposal is available in the service description below… Additionally, we are publishing BBC management’s application and supporting documents.”
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“Plans by the BBC to expand its website are to be closely scrutinised by the telecoms regulator amid fears that the corporation’s online activities are stifling competition.”
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“To inform its MIA of the proposed BBC local video service, Ofcom invites representations about its effects on substitute, complementary or related products and services. Those effects might be existing or potential, positive or negative.”
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“Jeff Jarvis, professor of journalism at City University New York, BuzzMachine blogger and MediaGuardian contributor sums up the 10 questions that news organisations in general, and the Guardian in particular, should be asking now.”
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“Part one of Jeff Jarvis’s seminar to the Guardian as part of the Future of Journalism series”
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“In part two of his seminar to the Guardian, as part of the Future of Journalism series, Jeff Jarvis argues that links are worth more than content”
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“Jimmy Leach, the former head of the prime minister’s digital PR operation, is to join the Independent as editorial director of the newspaper’s online service.”
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New Sky News beta test site
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“The Newspaper Society has today slammed fresh plans by the BBC to spend £68m of licence-payers’ money to enable 60 local websites to produce video on demand.”
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GroupM: “Interactive media’s share of worldwide advertising expenditures is expected to hit 15% in 2009, almost double from four years ago… finds a study from WPP’s GroupM.”
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“When using Google Ad Planner, simply enter demographics and sites associated with your target audience, and the tool will return information about sites (both on and off the Google content network) that your audience is likely to visit.”
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“Google has launched Google Ad Planner as an invite-only beta. It’s designed to allow advertisers to identify sites with demographics they’re interested in — even sites that aren’t part of Google’s advertising network.”
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“The BBC’s plan to spend £68m on a network of local video news websites has been condemned by the Newspaper Society, which said the corporation should not be given ‘free rein to trample over commercial rivals’.”
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“As weblogs represent an important new contribution to media pluralism, there is a need to clarify their status, and to create legal safeguards for use in the event of lawsuits” [via markmedia]
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links for 2008-06-24
24 June 2008 · No Comments
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“Why? Mainly because of three core technologies: Searchability (geotagging and keywords added by the journalist or search engine); GPS positioning of the reader; and personalisation.”
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“When I decided to post about my impending job interview, I would not have guessed I would get the response that I did. I have received some fantastic feedback… So, to continue the thread, this is a version of the presentation I’m going to give today”
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“The tools of media creation are widely available, more powerful every year and less expensive every year, that is systematically driving down the cost of trying stuff to zero, with the only cost, serious cost, being your time.”
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“Enders Analysis forecasts online advertising spending will increase 26% this year to £3.56 billion. This compares with a 2.5% fall in revenue, to £3.39 billion, for television.”
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“But its rise is likely to throw up anomalies in the system of online newspaper traffic measurement - notably, that online newspapers are becoming “category plays”, targeting sectors of the market, such as entertainment, news, video or business.”
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“I’ve said for a long time that news organisations need to have a distribution strategy for the web as much as they have one for offline.”
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“Why is Microsoft so panicked over Google-Yahoo? Time’s list of 50 best websites provides an anecdotal answer. Of the 50, 18 rely on Google ads for their income.” [via PDA]
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“Advertisers in Europe spent €11.19 billion ($15.3 billion) online in 2007, up from €7.21 billion ($9.1 billion) in 2006.”
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“FT.com has attracted 450,000 registered users since unveiling its new, 30-free-articles model in October - but the number of paying subscribers has remained largely “static” at “about 100,000”. “
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“Johnson Press digital publishing manager John Bradshaw will retire on Friday after 12 years with the regional news group”
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“Almost every newspaper Web site that made May’s top 30 list ranked by traffic increased the number of unique users, year-over-year.”
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“Craig Newmark (do I really need to explain that he’s the founder of Craigslist?) went before a group of editors at the Washington Post this week, and here’s a short video excerpt”
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“In my opinion, one of the most overlooked and least understood aspects of web design is that of typography.”
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“With six months to go until the integration of the news, business and sports teams across the Guardian, Observer and guardian.co.uk, the series was intended to get everyone engaging with the possibilities opened up by digital journalism.”
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“The lesson seems to be this: as long as there is news, people will try to share it. And new technology promises to turn the process into a tide that can swallow us up, good intentions and all.”
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“For internet businesses, the strategic battle to rank high with web engines is critical”
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“USA Today sat down with Google’s Matt Cutts, an engineer and active blogger, who has five easy tips on how to “optimize” your site so Google and the rest of the world can find it.”
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“Beatblogging.org is a collaboration between 13 news organizations from around the country and NewAssignment.Net, to figure out how journalists can use social networks to improve beat reporting.”
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“When writing for the print edition, reporters often have to spend large amounts of time getting “man on the street” quotes from random people to flush out stories. Not with blogging. That’s what the comment section of each blog post is for.”
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Hello. I'm David Black. I work as Group Director of Digital Publishing at Trinity Mirror plc. This personal blog includes links on the trends transforming newspaper and classified businesses online. 
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